The hunger - 1983

The erotic horror movie starring Catherine Deneuve as the main vampire Miriam. It wasn’t good but it had a little something, until the absurd ending. Now it makes no sense at all. It tried too hard to be cool and mysterious though, and Bowie’s part was too short. Also, they should have tried to answer a few keypoints more clearly, I mean, just invent something, whatever, and give it some sense!
The other protagonists are Susan Sarandon as Sarah and David Bowie as John. I watched this movie years ago and the only thing that I could remember was him saying “forever and ever”, which was within the first nine minutes. I said erotic-horror: erotic because of the sex scenes between Miriam and Sarah mainly, and horror because it’s a vampire story and there’s blood flowing. 
The story:
Miriam and John Blaylock pick up a couple at a club, take them home and then kill them using their Egyptian pendants - Ankh representing everlasting life, she says - and feed upon them and then burn the remains. She’s the one who’s being living since forever, she was killing in ancient Egypt’s time, and in the 1800s she turned John into one to be her companion, promising him eternal life and youth.
Now John starts suffering from insomnia and he knows what this means. It has happened before so her previous companions: at some point they start aging and be unable to sleep, and even if they feed the aging goes on. He asks her who will take his place when he’s gone, sure that the already thought of that. Maybe she thought of Alice, the girl who went to them to study music, but she doesn’t tell. He goes to see Dr Sarah who studies aging and the internal clock and tells her that only yesterday he was thirty years old and now he’s aging “I’m a young man” he says, but she thinks he’s crazy and lets him wait hoping he’ll go away. He ages by the minute and after two hours he leaves accusing her of lying to him and leaving him wait. She tries to stop him, upset at seeing how he has aged, but he goes home. At home Alice comes to the house and he can’t resist and kills her, but it’s useless, he keeps aging. When Miriam comes home and understands what he did, he reminds her that she promised him he’d be forever young and they’d be together forever, but she says there’s nothing she can do to make him young again now. He begs her to kill him and release him but she says she can’t, that there is no release. He’ll leave forever in a decaying body. She brings him upstairs in her attic and she puts him in a coffin and leaves him there, alongside the other coffins of her previous lovers-companions, not dead, not exactly alive, forever conscious in their graves.
Sarah goes to her house looking for him - with only a white t-shirt and no bra - and then they have sex and somehow Miriam’s blood enters her bloodstream. She goes back home changed, she can’t eat and feels sick, and after some tests it turns out she has two blood strains in her system, one not human fighting for dominance. Sarah is scared and angry and goes to Miriam to ask her what she did to her. Miriam has the face to say “there’s nothing to be frightened of as long as you put your faith in me, give me time, trust me” ... the face..
Sarah leaves but feels so bad she comes back because ‘the hunger’ is too strong and she doesn’t know what to do about it, she suffers like an addict without knowing what her addiction is.
Sarah’s lover and colleague Tom comes looking for her and Miriam sends him up to the bedroom where he finds Sarah clearly unwell. She feeds on him and then Miriam explains to her that they now belong to each other, they’ll feed once a week and never grow old: “we’re damned to live forever, with no release, no end”. Sarah doesn’t bring up the fact that Miriam’s husband was aging so rapidly, strangely, instead she kisses Miriam and then uses the Ankh to slash her own throat forcing Miriam to swallow the blood that fills her mouth. When she collapses on the floor and Miriam begs her to stay with her, Sarah says “I can’t”, and Miriam brings her upstairs with all her lovers. 
The attic shakes and suddenly all her lovers come out of their coffins and try to get at her; she screams and tries to fight them off and leave, but she falls a long way down the stairwell. She starts aging quickly and the almost-corpses die and are finally released.
Next scene we learn that the building is now being sold because the owners died, and we might think that they all died.
Last scene shows us Sarah alive and well, with Miriam locked up in a coffin, and this doesn’t make sense at all, why did they exchange places? Why did Miriam start aging? Because she drank Sarah’s blood? So what, didn’t she do that already? How did she turn Sarah in the first place? How did she make her drink her blood without her noticing?
Why didn’t Sarah die? Absurd, she didn’t want to go on living if that meant being forever forced to kill people..
ITA Miriam si sveglia a mezzanotte (makes no sense I know, just makes you think of vampires)